Wake County Schools

Tomorrow, members of Red4EdNC will hold a Teacher Town Hall/Press Conference at Leesville Road High School.  Red4EdNC leader Angela Scioli teaches social studies at Leesville Road. According to the group’s FAQs: Our strategy provides a way to take effective action, quietly. Most of the essential phases…

Last year, an intern and I attempted to obtain public school employee salary data for each of North Carolina’s 115 school districts.  The N.C. Department of Public Instruction does not maintain a central database of employee compensation information.  As a result, we were forced to contact each district and requested…

The Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution just published “Bringing back busing: Do benefits outweigh cost?,” a must-read article on forced busing.  The author is David J. Armor, Professor Emeritus at George Mason University, who has written extensively on the subject. The…

In an email sent to Wake County Schools staff, Superintendent Jim Merrill and Chief Operating Officer David Neter skirt the fact that the county commission, not the N.C. General Assembly, is responsible for their multi-million dollar budget shortfall.  They wrote, Tuesday afternoon we presented recommendations to our School Board…

Why does the Wake County Schools have a budget shortfall?  Let’s review. County commissioners gave the school system $11.8 million less than requested by the school board.  Given that Democrats control both the county commission and the school board, there is a popcorn-worthy fight around the corner. The Republicans…

In response to allegations of discriminatory discipline practices, Wake County public school teachers received the following email from the federal Office of Civil Rights: The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education is conducting an investigation of this…

Courtesy of incomparable Bob Bowden, founder of Choice Media:…

I pledge to use the following quote every time I talk about school choice and competition and encourage you to do the same: “In the past, public schools could assign students to wherever they wanted to because parents couldn’t make a choice to leave the public schools,” [Wake County school…